By Jina Moore on June 4, 2010
Here’s a cross-post from my site: I found a lot of food for thought in Nathan Schneider’s interview of philosopher Judith Butler, in this week’s issue of Guernica. Schneider talks to Butler about her book, “Frames of War: When is life grievable?” which seems from the interview like it’s about, to put it very bluntly, [...]
Posted in Reporting War
By Jina Moore on May 9, 2010
Photographer Jennifer Karady is deliberately blurring the lines between journalism and therapy in her series, now on exhibit at SF Camerawork in San Francisco, “In Country: Soldiers Stories From Iraq and Afghanistan.” Karady met veterans of the wars and asked them to talk about their most traumatic moments in the theater, in several conversations over [...]
Posted in Reporting War, Three Acts | Tagged Afghanistan, iraq
By Jina Moore on March 29, 2010
I’ve just landed back in Rwanda, where I’ll be living for the next year or so, and already an editorial dilemma looms: How should outsiders cover the upcoming genocide anniversary? This is my fourth trip to Rwanda, my second in which tragic history and the rotation of the Earth on its axis conspire to offer [...]
Posted in Reporting War, Three Acts | Tagged commemoration, genocide, rwanda
By Jina Moore on February 8, 2010
My fellow 2009 Fellows might recall that an issue preoccupying me during our Dart week was about whether to name an 18-year-old Liberian woman, who wanted to be named, as the victim of rape. I’m not the only one who has a tough time with this choice, apparently. There was a minor brouhaha on the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged africa, covering rape
By Jina Moore on January 30, 2010
I. I was in New Orleans a few weeks ago, and John McCusker and his wife showed me some of the city. As he was explaining the geography of Katrina to me, a non-native who’s also not especially adept at spatial reasoning, he told a super short story I keep remembering. I can’t remember where [...]
Posted in Three Acts | Tagged Haiti, katrina
By Jina Moore on January 23, 2010
I’ve been following the critique of media coverage of Haiti with some interest. A lot of it is predictable, especially the stuff about Anderson Cooper. A disproportionate amount of it falls heavily (unfairly?) on image journalists, photographers and television folks. But there’s one critique, for all of us, that’s playing on repeat in my head: [...]
Posted in Haiti Earthquake | Tagged Haiti
By Jina Moore on January 23, 2010
I’m taking Kinyarwanda lessons again, in preparation for my Fulbright work in Rwanda that begins at the end of March. My new New York tutor is a highly educated man, with a PhD in law and an impressive track record of employment with all the places international types want to work for in Geneva. He [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged language, rwanda
